Chris Mole MP (Labour) MP for Ipswich. On the Executive Committee of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Communications. Member of the All Party Internet Group. Member of EURIM.

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2007-07-25 - ITPro - Call for interoperable local government IT: Author: Nicole Kobie; Summary: In order to succeed with IT programmes, local councils must focus on joined up services and be willing to take risks, MPs were told yesterday at the House of Commons. At an Orange-sponsored information event, leaders in local government innovation stepped up to show MPs the way forward with IT. People expect better services because they're accustomed to using technology when they deal with retail and other services, said Chris Mole, MP for Ipswich and the Parliamentary Private Secretary to John Healey, Minister for the department of communities and local government. "Citizen's expectations are conditioned by other customer experiences," said Mole, adding local authorities must keep up with new service models implemented by banks or other businesses. "It's not just about putting systems in electronic form, but as a catalyst for business processes." "At the end of the day, if local authorities don't take the attitude that technology can help services, they'll be missing out," Mole said.

2007-01-24 - The Register - Law seeks ‘deposit’ of web sites with UK libraries: Summary: For almost a century, publishers have been legally required to deposit books with the British Library. But a draft law will be debated in the House of Lords tomorrow that, perhaps bizarrely, seeks to extend this obligation to web site operators. Chris Mole, Labour MP for Ipswich, has laudable intentions for the Legal Deposit Libraries Bill, calling it his "bid to capture electronic publications for future generations."

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